Road-oiling vehicle.



- G. WORI-BY. ROAD OILING VEHICLE. APPLICATION FILED APR.1,.1913.

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Patented A r; 21, 1914 7 Wal UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE I. WORLEY, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONEJIALF DOCHARLES E. DEHNER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

ROAD-OILING VEHICLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

Application filed April 1, 1913. Serial No. 758,265.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonen I. WonLnY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Road-OilingVehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to road oiling vehides and the special object inview is to produce a device of this character in which the oil to beapplied to the roads will be spread upon the surface treated in the formof a fine mist.

Another object is to provide an oil carrying tank with means forconfiningthe air therein under pressure to force the oilout and withsuitable connections between the air supply and the oil dischargingnozzles for atomizing the oil.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises certainnovel and pe culiar features of construction as hereinafter describedand claimed, and in order that the same may be fully understoodreference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1,is a side elevation of a road oiling vehicle embodying my invention;Fig. 2, is a rear view in elevationof certain connections at one of therear corners of the vehicle; Fig. 3, is a plan view of the. vehiclepartly broken away to show the pipes and their connections; Fig. 4, is asectional detail of one of the adjustable rod and lever connections;Fig. 5, is a vertical section through one of the oil atomizing nozzleswith its pipe connections and regl'ilating valves, and Fig. 6, is ahorizontal section through the lower end of said nozzle on the lin'eVI'VI of Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawings, 2 represents the bed of a vehicle of anydesired type and which may be driven in any suitable manner. Upon thebed 2 is carried an oil supply tank 4 adjacent one end of which I alsomount upon the bed 2, an engine or motor 6 of any suitable type fordriving an air compressor 8. The air compressor is also carried by thebed 2 and supplies compressed air to the tank 4 through a pipe 10leading into the top of said tank and fitted with a pressure gage 12. l

Communicating with the air space in the top of the tank 4 is an air dome14 to protect the opening of the outlet pipe 16 from the splashing ofthe oil in the tank when the vehicle is moving. The pipe 16 leads to therear of the vehicle and down past the rear end of the bed 2, where itcommunicates with three branch pipes 18, two of which run toward thesides of the vehicle, the third running forward beneath the vehicle bed2, each branch pipe being for the purpose of supplying air to one of aseries of nozzles 20.

For supplying oil to thenozzles 20, a pipe 22 having a valve 24 isconnected with the bottom of the tankfl and leads into the nozzle at theopposite side from the branch air pipe 18. Each nozzle 20 has across-shaped body portion 26,'as shown in Fig. 5, having horizontalpassages 28 and 29 therein for communicating with the pipes 18 and 22,the said passages being separated at their inner ends by a partition 30.The connection with the said pipes is made by means of collars 31,swiveled on the ends of the pipes and engaging suitable threadedterminals 4 formed at the ends of passages 28 and 29 whereby it will beunderstood that the nozzle is adapted to assume different angularpositions aside from the vertical position shown. Communicating with theinner ends of the passages 28 and 29 and extending downward therefromtoward the nozzle opening, are parallel passages 32, the lower ends ofwhich are sealed by plugs 33 which are adapted to be removed for thepurpose of cleaning the nozzle. The openings into the upper ends of thepassages 32 are reduced I and the amount of opening regulated by meansof screw rods 34, the lower ends of which are tapered and adaptedto beseated into said reduced ends of passages 32 and close the same or to beraised by turning the rods to lift said tapered ends and-increase thesize of the opening. The threaded portions of the rods 34 operate in theupper section of the body portion 26 of the nozzle, the upper ends ofthe openings for the rods being sealed by packing rings 36 upon whichrests a collar 38 having openings for the rods, and held tightly inplace by a cap 40. engaging the exterior of the portion 26 which isproperly threaded for said cap. Threaded upon the lower end of the bodyportion 26 is an acorn-shaped nozzle piece 42, having a sli opening 44-.the upper edge of the nozzle 3 piece abutting agai'. st a collar 46 uponthe l body portion 26.

To establish communication between the I not wish to be limited to theprecise conpassages 32 and the interior of the nozzle piece 42, openings48 are formed through the body pqrtion 26, at the lower ends of saidpassages '32, said openings being formed through the outside wall of theportion 26 at an angle to the radius of said body portion insteadofdirectly through the Wall, the'object of this being to direct the oiland air out through theopenings at an angle approaching a tangent to theinner curved surface of the nozzle piece. By this construction avigorous whirling action of the air and oil is set up within the nozzlepiece in consequence of which the oil is thoroughly atomized and forcedout through the opening 44 in the form of a fine mist.

It is necessary to have connections from the front of the vehiclewhereby the flow of air and'oil through the nozzles may be regulated bythe driver, and I arrange this as follows z-For turning the rods 34,each rod has secured to its upper end, a crank arm 50, each pair of arms50 extending in the same general direction and having pivoted thereto apair of rods 52, the opposite ends of which rods are clamped in a crossbar 54 so that the rods 52 of each pair will move in unison as its crossbar 54 moves. The rods 52 are adjustably connected to said crossbars'and held clamped therein by set screws 56. To the middle of eachcross baris connected a rod 58, having a reduced end for engagement withthe cross bar and secured thereto by a nut 60 so that endwise movementof the rod 58 in either direction will correspondingly move the bar 54.Each rod bracket 64 secured to The other arms of said lovers ()2 arejoined 58 is joined at its opposite end to one arm of a bell crank lever62, a series of three of which are pivotally mounted upon a the vehiclebody 2.

by links 66 to the adjacent arms of the bell cranks68 pivoted upon abracket 70 carried by the body 2, and the other arms of said bell cranks68 are connected by links 72 to arrrs 74 secured to the lower ends of aseries of sleeves of different diameters journaled together within thebracket 76 secured to the front end of the bed 2, and operated byaseries of crank arms 78 provided with hand grips 80. .Ttwill thus beseen thatby manipulation of the pgoper lever 78 any one of the threesets of rods 34, will be turned to' regulate the corresponding nozzleand the position of the rods will remain as set Without anysecuring-means for the crank arms, due to a certain amount of frictionbetween the rods and their bearings.

From the foregoihg it will be seen that I have produced a road oilingvehicle embodying the features of advantage (mumerated as desirable inthe statement of the object of the invention, and while the above represents one embodiment of the same I do comprcssedaiir supply pipe, the

struction and arrangement shown but reserve the right to such changesand modifications as fall within the spirit and scope of the appendedclaims.

I claim 1. A road oiling vehicle comprising an air tight oil tankprovided with a wheeled support, compressed-air-supplying means alsomounted on said support in connnunication with the space over the oil insaid oil tank, a series of compound oil and air discharge nozzlcs eachconnnlniicating with both the oil and the air in said tank whereby theoil is forcc'd out of the tank by air pressure and atomized as it isdischarged from said nozzles, and connections between said nozzles andthe front of the vehicle whereby the nozzles may becontrolled eachindependently of the others. i

2. A road oiling vehicle, comprising an oil tank and supporting meanstherefor, a discharge pipe connected to the tank, a series of compoundair and oil discharge nozzles connected with said pipe, means forsupplying compressed air to said nozzles, and a connection between eachnozzle and thefront of the vehicle whereby the nozzles may be controlledeach independently of the others.

3. A road oiling vehicle, comprising an oil tank and supporting meanstherefor, a discharge pipe connected to the tank, a series of compoundair and oil discharge nozzles connected with said pipe, means forsupplying compressed air to said nozzles, each nozzle being providedwith an air valve and an oil valve, and independent connections betweeneach nozzle and the front of the vehicle whereby the valves of eachnozzle may be controlled simultaneously.

4. A road oiling vehicle comprising an oil tank and supporting meanstherefor, an oil discharge pipe connected to the tank, a deliveryapproaching each other in a line extending longitudinally oi. thevehicle, a compound air and oil discharge nozzle swivelcd at one side toone of said pipes and at its other side to the other pipe, therebypermitting said nozzle to be swung la tcrally into di'llercnt positionsabout a longitudinally extending horizontal axis, said nozzle beingprovided with an air valve and an oil valve, and conncrtions from thefront of the vehicle whereby the valves ol. said nozzle may becontrolled simultaneously.

5. A road oiling vehicle comprising an oil tank and supporting meanstherefor, an oil discharge pipe connected to the tank, a compresscd-airsupply pipe, each of said pipes having a branch cxtemling to oar-h ofthe rear corners ol" the vehicle, the delivery ends of the branchesatcach of said corncrs approaching each other in a line cxends of saidpipes tending longitudinally of the vehicle, a compound air and oildischarge nozzle at each of said corners, each nozzle being swiveledbetween one set of delivery ends, thereby permitting it to be swunglaterally into different positions about an axis extendinglongitudinally of the vehicle, and a connection between each nozzle andthe front of the vehicle whereby the nozzles may be controlled eachindependently" of the other.

6. A road oiling vehicle comprising an air tight oil tank and supportingmeans therefor, an oil discharge pipe connected to the tank, a series ofcompound oil and air discharge nozzles connected to said pipe, acompressed air pipe connected to said nozzles and to the space over thesurface ofthe oil in said tank, each of said nozzles havin an air valveand an oil valve, a, crank arm tted to the stem of each valve, rodsconnected to said crank arms, a cross bar adjustably clamped to the endsof each pair of said connecting rods, and means for independentlyreciprocating each cross bar from the front of the vehicle.

7. A road oiling vehicle provided with a for supplying both oil andcompressed air to all said nozzles, and independent connections betweeneach of said nozzles and the front of the vehicle whereby the flow ofoil and air through any one nozzle may be simultaneously controlled.

8. A road oiling vehicle provided with a plurality of compound oil andair discharge nozzles pivotally mounted about .axes extendinglongitudinally of the vehicle,means for supplying both oil andcompressed air to all said nozzles, and an independent opcratingconnection leading to each of said nozzles whereby the flow of oil andair,

through any one nozzle may be simultane' ously controlled.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signa, ture, in the presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGE I. WORLEY. Witnesses:

BEN F. SHAMBAUGH, G. Y. THoRrE.

